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An all day workshop today as a build in to the ARK KM conference here. A good turn out, many people I know well plus some new people. We looked at the current situation surrounding KM. MORE
And with headlines like the one in USAToday, the circle is complete: the media reporting on the media’s coverage as if they were actually reporting an event. Secret Service scandal eclipses Obama trip. That’s the headline in USAToday. It’s typical of the news coverage of the Secret Service scandal before the President arrived in Colombia. Let me fix that for you: Media’s decision to focus on the Secret Service scandal eclipses Obama trip. MORE
I was interviewed some time ago ( here's how I responded , in full) for a Pew report on the future of the internet , which has now come out. I am one of the people featured in the report. The report is being picked up, and I am quoted by Fast Company and ReadWriteWeb. MORE
An organization that I cited in the Revolution book, Towards Maturity , has recently released their 2015-2016 Industry Benchmark Report , and it’s of interest to individuals and organizations looking for real data on what’s working, and not, in L&D. The report has a number of useful sections, including documenting the current state of the industry, guidance for business leaders on expectations, on listening to learners, and on rethinking the L&D team. MORE
We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. Could funders prioritize storytelling as a reporting and evaluation mechanism? The report is embedded below, or can be downloaded at this link. MORE
So I’m visiting the original ten, with my own brief progress report on each, to the degree I’ve kept track. Encourage reporters and editors to write linky text. Back in October, 2006 I posted Newspapers 2.o , listing ten “hopefully helpful clues&# for papers hoping to adapt to a world that would only get more and more of its news online. I ran the same list in August 2007, adding an eleventh suggestion. MORE
We've now published a revised version of it as an annual report and it makes for good reading. At our Christmas party in Singapore a few weeks ago, Angelina put together a slide set about the various events over the last year here in Cognitive Edge. It gives some idea of the growth in our network and the increasing number of projects as SenseMaker™ matures as a product. You can also see the smiling (or less so in my case) faces of the team. MORE
Yesterday, the E-Learning Guild announced the release of this report, in which Jane Bozarth analyzes eLearning Guild research on the latest trends in adoption and usage of social media for learning. ” This report is free for all paid members of The eLearning Guild. MORE
Reporting Social To Stakeholders: Guest Post by Meg Biallis. These professionals came to talk about standardizing the reporting process – about integrating social media results into the traditional reporting procedure. Report regularly and you will be rewarded. MORE
Today, Towards Maturity released their 2016-17 Learning Benchmark Report: Unlocking Potential: Releasing the potential of the business and its people through learning. This report helps break down the vision for truly integrating learning and work into practical steps. MORE
Of course, there have been plenty of obstacles along the way, and there are still plenty of them ahead of us, but, if there is anything that I have learned in the last year, since my last progress report update , and even more so in the last few months, is that this movement is now unstoppable. MORE
First, having worked on custom LMS, LCMS, Authoring projects and being pretty deeply familiar with SCORM, it's easy to blame the LMS for poor reporting on per-question reporting, but its very hard for an LMS to create generic reports that work well across all the variations that you run into. So, if the source of the statement "I'm not happy with their support for SCORM" is only the issues of reporting, that's a bit unfair. MORE
I'm in danger of having a whole month without blog posts, so just as August draws to a close I thought I had better get my act together! MORE
This is a growing area of work for us with a lot of organisations frustrated by complex reports with lots of figures but no context. One of the things I like about this report is the mix of inductive and abductive results. One of the things about narrative work using SenseMaker® is that you are often dealing with material, especially the results which cannot be shared. MORE
The Berkman Center has released a new report on the use of tools to circumvent restrictions on the Internet imposed by countries that control their citizens’ access to the Net. Here is a brief summary from the email announcing the report: In this report, the authors use a variety of methods to evaluate the usage of the first three of these four types of tools to test two hypotheses. MORE
I was worried about the report outs and had posed a question on Twitter asking what other folks had done. One suggestion (from [link] ) was to have the groups put their report outs on cards with the translations in the two dominant languages (French and English in this case). MORE
Inthis new E-Learning Guild Survey Research Report,Informal Learning Takes Off, Iexamine the results of a survey about informal learning in the workplace. MORE
I’m at a Shorenstein lunchtime talk where Farnaz Fassihi is giving a talk titled “Reporting from the Middle East.” She was a reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger on 9/11. ” There’s thus even more of an obligation to have reporters on the ground. MORE
Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, and John Palfrey have released a careful report they wrote in 2007 about the tools and techniques for circumventing filtering of sites. From the announcement of the report’s publication: The authors find that all of the tools use the same basic mechanisms of proxying and encryption but that they differ in their models of hosting proxies. Responses from developers of the tools in question are included in the report. MORE
I have been recently working with McAfee, now part of Intel Security, to write a report on Safeguarding the Future of Digital Australia in 2025 , being launched this morning in Parliament House in Canberra as part of the Federal Government’s Stay Smart Online Week. MORE
That way I can slice and dice the reports as I need. However, the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT : The eLearningGuild recently announced that they would give copies of the PDF reports to all Associate Members (which is free with a profile completion). MORE
H ere's our February Report: Trains. We move closer to the end of our story. Society enters fully into the new economic age of the Knowledge Society of the 21st Century, and the countdown begins. . World. Trains are gaining on cars. -Eurostar is adding another train from London to the continent, promoting the train's 80% less pollution as a way to save the human race (it is). The Netherlands announced a 2040 plan to connect its 9 biggest cities with trains leaving every 10 minutes. MORE
A few more positive stories about boys this month. Society still firmly anti-boy and the young men are still dying. One of the boys we mentor/help just lost his best high school friend to despair. suicide by intentional overdose). So yeah, we got some skin in this game. MORE
Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The Horizon Report 2011 (PDF MORE
I’m happy to report that the eLearning Guild has just released this year’s mobile learning research report I authored for them (after doing the same last year). similar free access to other coming research reports, Thought Leader Webinars, etc). I should admit that there’s a bias in the report, in that the membership of the Guild is largely (though not wholly) corporate, and again largely US based. MORE
"There's a lot of interest in the Rupert Murdoch story here in the UK," the British reporter told his American interviewer, adding, "That's because our politicians aren't destroying our economy like yours are." Weak embarrased laugh from the American radio host. MORE
I am currently in Toronto to launch a report commissioned by Visa Canada on The Future of Back-to-School. You can download the full report by clicking on the image of the report cover below. MORE
Woodzicka (Washington and Lee University) and Marianne LaFrance (Yale) report an experiment reminiscent of Milgram’s famous studies of obedience to authority. Women asked the harassing questions reported significantly higher rates of fear than women asked the merely surprising questions. MORE
Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. MORE
A friend recently had to produce a report at work. A tight deadline caused significant stress, and an important topic meant that it felt like it mattered. However when asked if they thought anyone would read it the reply was — no. I so clearly remember, in my first managerial job, being faced with a blank page in Word and the expectation that I would generate dozens of pages filled with — I knew not what. MORE
Woodzicka (Washington and Lee University) and Marianne LaFrance (Yale) report an experiment reminiscent of Milgram’s famous studies of obedience to authority. Women asked the harassing questions reported significantly higher rates of fear than women asked the merely surprising questions. MORE
So I’m back from my time in Berlin at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. As announced previously , I was there to give a talk about how perception works, and how cities control our perception. MORE
And since Watson is constantly trolling the Web, he would perhaps bring to my attention a case report published the previous night in a Swedish journal describing a new interaction between two of the drugs my patient is taking. Physician, professor, and novelist Abraham Verghese wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Times in reaction to the news that IBM is working with the universities of Columbia and Maryland to adapt Watson , the Jeopardy! MORE
The leading cause of dissatisfaction with LMS systems, according to a survey conducted by the Brandon Hall Group¹ is poor LMS reporting functionality. LMS LMS Reporting LMS FeaturesCompanies are spending more and more every year on training and development. However, dissatisfaction with learning management systems is widespread. MORE
The Web was social before it had social networking software. It just hadn’t yet evolved a pervasive layer of software specifically designed to help us be social. In 2003 it was becoming clear that we needed?—?and and were getting?—?a a new class of application, unsurprisingly called “social software.” But what sort of sociality were we looking for? What sort could such software bestow? MORE
The report begins with a simple, holistic definition of transparency and why it is important for funders to be transparent: “Transparency is, in a word, openness. MORE
This month democracy showed some strength and Americans got needed hope. Conservative Chief Justice Roberts seems bent on maintaining democracy. Big business, Congress, American people seem to be willing to fight for Democracy. President Trump gets called an asset of Russia’s Putin for the first time. Department of Justice seems like it won't be shut up. Some Republicans also coming out for democracy. Bottom line, we get hopeful MORE
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Top story of the month: New Green Deal. Old people say there's no ROI in saving the human race, informing their grandchildren they won't make it past 2200. Sorry, kids, it's just too expensive for the world's richest country to save the human race. . But Gen Y is not buying the cost. MORE
I’m pleased to announce that the reports from the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) are now available. In the spirit of useful science , each grantee was asked to provide a one sentence overview of their research findings. I enjoyed working on this grant. The traditional method of exploring a knowledge domain takes years. With MOOCs, given their rapid development, this didn’t seem feasible. MORE
Here is an email Nagla Rizk sent to the Berkman mailing list. I’m posting it with her permission. When we stormed the streets last January, we chanted “Aish, Horreya, Adala Egtema’eya” (“Bread, Freedom, Social Justice”). We knew exactly what we wanted: a better livelihood for all. At the time, Egypt was experiencing high rates of economic “growth”, a superficial sign of positive economic performance that did not trickle down to the masses. MORE
Report Related Topics Euen Semple
OCTOBER 16, 2016
A friend recently had to produce a report at work. A tight deadline caused significant stress, and an important topic meant that it felt like it mattered. However when asked if they thought anyone would read it the reply was — no. I so clearly remember, in my first managerial job, being faced with a blank page in Word and the expectation that I would generate dozens of pages filled with — I knew not what.
Nine Shift
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
H ere's our February Report: Trains. We move closer to the end of our story. Society enters fully into the new economic age of the Knowledge Society of the 21st Century, and the countdown begins. . World. Trains are gaining on cars. -Eurostar is adding another train from London to the continent, promoting the train's 80% less pollution as a way to save the human race (it is). The Netherlands announced a 2040 plan to connect its 9 biggest cities with trains leaving every 10 minutes.
Nine Shift
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
A few more positive stories about boys this month. Society still firmly anti-boy and the young men are still dying. One of the boys we mentor/help just lost his best high school friend to despair. suicide by intentional overdose). So yeah, we got some skin in this game.
Nine Shift
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Top story of the month: New Green Deal. Old people say there's no ROI in saving the human race, informing their grandchildren they won't make it past 2200. Sorry, kids, it's just too expensive for the world's richest country to save the human race. . But Gen Y is not buying the cost.
TOPYX LMS
JUNE 13, 2019
eLearning LMS LMS ReportingLMS learners waste up to 40 percent of their time due to "frustrating experiences" with online courses, per eLearning Industry.
Nine Shift
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
This month democracy showed some strength and Americans got needed hope. Conservative Chief Justice Roberts seems bent on maintaining democracy. Big business, Congress, American people seem to be willing to fight for Democracy. President Trump gets called an asset of Russia’s Putin for the first time. Department of Justice seems like it won't be shut up. Some Republicans also coming out for democracy. Bottom line, we get hopeful
Jane Hart
AUGUST 13, 2014
Inthis new E-Learning Guild Survey Research Report,Informal Learning Takes Off, Iexamine the results of a survey about informal learning in the workplace.
George Siemens
JUNE 9, 2014
I’m pleased to announce that the reports from the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) are now available. In the spirit of useful science , each grantee was asked to provide a one sentence overview of their research findings. I enjoyed working on this grant. The traditional method of exploring a knowledge domain takes years. With MOOCs, given their rapid development, this didn’t seem feasible.
Nine Shift
MARCH 27, 2017
The latest report out is that: *43 percent of workers now say they spent at least some time working remotely, up 4 percent from 2012. The share that reported working 4-5 days a week rose from 24% to 31% today. It is the silent revolution in society.
Dave Snowden
AUGUST 29, 2013
I'm in danger of having a whole month without blog posts, so just as August draws to a close I thought I had better get my act together!
Dave Snowden
AUGUST 4, 2009
An all day workshop today as a build in to the ARK KM conference here. A good turn out, many people I know well plus some new people. We looked at the current situation surrounding KM.
Ross Dawson
AUGUST 27, 2014
I am currently in Toronto to launch a report commissioned by Visa Canada on The Future of Back-to-School. You can download the full report by clicking on the image of the report cover below.
Clark Quinn
MAY 10, 2012
I’m happy to report that the eLearning Guild has just released this year’s mobile learning research report I authored for them (after doing the same last year). similar free access to other coming research reports, Thought Leader Webinars, etc). I should admit that there’s a bias in the report, in that the membership of the Guild is largely (though not wholly) corporate, and again largely US based.
TOPYX LMS
MARCH 28, 2019
Of all learning management system features, LMS reporting is the most effective at helping administrators refine training to drive business results. LMS Reporting
David Weinberger
MARCH 25, 2015
I’m at a Shorenstein lunchtime talk where Farnaz Fassihi is giving a talk titled “Reporting from the Middle East.” She was a reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger on 9/11. ” There’s thus even more of an obligation to have reporters on the ground.
David Weinberger
MARCH 5, 2009
Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, and John Palfrey have released a careful report they wrote in 2007 about the tools and techniques for circumventing filtering of sites. From the announcement of the report’s publication: The authors find that all of the tools use the same basic mechanisms of proxying and encryption but that they differ in their models of hosting proxies. Responses from developers of the tools in question are included in the report.
TOPYX LMS
MARCH 23, 2018
The leading cause of dissatisfaction with LMS systems, according to a survey conducted by the Brandon Hall Group¹ is poor LMS reporting functionality. LMS LMS Reporting LMS FeaturesCompanies are spending more and more every year on training and development. However, dissatisfaction with learning management systems is widespread.
Dave Snowden
JULY 14, 2010
This is a growing area of work for us with a lot of organisations frustrated by complex reports with lots of figures but no context. One of the things I like about this report is the mix of inductive and abductive results. One of the things about narrative work using SenseMaker® is that you are often dealing with material, especially the results which cannot be shared.
David Weinberger
APRIL 16, 2012
And with headlines like the one in USAToday, the circle is complete: the media reporting on the media’s coverage as if they were actually reporting an event. Secret Service scandal eclipses Obama trip. That’s the headline in USAToday. It’s typical of the news coverage of the Secret Service scandal before the President arrived in Colombia. Let me fix that for you: Media’s decision to focus on the Secret Service scandal eclipses Obama trip.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Yesterday, the E-Learning Guild announced the release of this report, in which Jane Bozarth analyzes eLearning Guild research on the latest trends in adoption and usage of social media for learning. ” This report is free for all paid members of The eLearning Guild.
Beth Kanter
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Reporting Social To Stakeholders: Guest Post by Meg Biallis. These professionals came to talk about standardizing the reporting process – about integrating social media results into the traditional reporting procedure. Report regularly and you will be rewarded.
Nine Shift
JULY 27, 2011
"There's a lot of interest in the Rupert Murdoch story here in the UK," the British reporter told his American interviewer, adding, "That's because our politicians aren't destroying our economy like yours are." Weak embarrased laugh from the American radio host.
Luis Suarez
MAY 6, 2013
Of course, there have been plenty of obstacles along the way, and there are still plenty of them ahead of us, but, if there is anything that I have learned in the last year, since my last progress report update , and even more so in the last few months, is that this movement is now unstoppable.
Beth Kanter
MAY 9, 2014
We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. Could funders prioritize storytelling as a reporting and evaluation mechanism? The report is embedded below, or can be downloaded at this link.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 18, 2010
The Berkman Center has released a new report on the use of tools to circumvent restrictions on the Internet imposed by countries that control their citizens’ access to the Net. Here is a brief summary from the email announcing the report: In this report, the authors use a variety of methods to evaluate the usage of the first three of these four types of tools to test two hypotheses.
David Weinberger
AUGUST 22, 2014
The Web was social before it had social networking software. It just hadn’t yet evolved a pervasive layer of software specifically designed to help us be social. In 2003 it was becoming clear that we needed?—?and and were getting?—?a a new class of application, unsurprisingly called “social software.” But what sort of sociality were we looking for? What sort could such software bestow?
Jane Hart
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Today, Towards Maturity released their 2016-17 Learning Benchmark Report: Unlocking Potential: Releasing the potential of the business and its people through learning. This report helps break down the vision for truly integrating learning and work into practical steps.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
That way I can slice and dice the reports as I need. However, the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT : The eLearningGuild recently announced that they would give copies of the PDF reports to all Associate Members (which is free with a profile completion).
Nancy White
AUGUST 10, 2009
I was worried about the report outs and had posed a question on Twitter asking what other folks had done. One suggestion (from [link] ) was to have the groups put their report outs on cards with the translations in the two dominant languages (French and English in this case).
Doc Searls
JUNE 10, 2010
So I’m visiting the original ten, with my own brief progress report on each, to the degree I’ve kept track. Encourage reporters and editors to write linky text. Back in October, 2006 I posted Newspapers 2.o , listing ten “hopefully helpful clues&# for papers hoping to adapt to a world that would only get more and more of its news online. I ran the same list in August 2007, adding an eleventh suggestion.
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
Here is an email Nagla Rizk sent to the Berkman mailing list. I’m posting it with her permission. When we stormed the streets last January, we chanted “Aish, Horreya, Adala Egtema’eya” (“Bread, Freedom, Social Justice”). We knew exactly what we wanted: a better livelihood for all. At the time, Egypt was experiencing high rates of economic “growth”, a superficial sign of positive economic performance that did not trickle down to the masses.
Andy McAfee
MARCH 7, 2011
And since Watson is constantly trolling the Web, he would perhaps bring to my attention a case report published the previous night in a Swedish journal describing a new interaction between two of the drugs my patient is taking. Physician, professor, and novelist Abraham Verghese wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Times in reaction to the news that IBM is working with the universities of Columbia and Maryland to adapt Watson , the Jeopardy!
Ross Dawson
JUNE 1, 2014
I have been recently working with McAfee, now part of Intel Security, to write a report on Safeguarding the Future of Digital Australia in 2025 , being launched this morning in Parliament House in Canberra as part of the Federal Government’s Stay Smart Online Week.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
I was interviewed some time ago ( here's how I responded , in full) for a Pew report on the future of the internet , which has now come out. I am one of the people featured in the report. The report is being picked up, and I am quoted by Fast Company and ReadWriteWeb.
Beth Kanter
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
An organization that I cited in the Revolution book, Towards Maturity , has recently released their 2015-2016 Industry Benchmark Report , and it’s of interest to individuals and organizations looking for real data on what’s working, and not, in L&D. The report has a number of useful sections, including documenting the current state of the industry, guidance for business leaders on expectations, on listening to learners, and on rethinking the L&D team.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
First, having worked on custom LMS, LCMS, Authoring projects and being pretty deeply familiar with SCORM, it's easy to blame the LMS for poor reporting on per-question reporting, but its very hard for an LMS to create generic reports that work well across all the variations that you run into. So, if the source of the statement "I'm not happy with their support for SCORM" is only the issues of reporting, that's a bit unfair.
Mind Hacks
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
Woodzicka (Washington and Lee University) and Marianne LaFrance (Yale) report an experiment reminiscent of Milgram’s famous studies of obedience to authority. Women asked the harassing questions reported significantly higher rates of fear than women asked the merely surprising questions.
Mind Hacks
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
Woodzicka (Washington and Lee University) and Marianne LaFrance (Yale) report an experiment reminiscent of Milgram’s famous studies of obedience to authority. Women asked the harassing questions reported significantly higher rates of fear than women asked the merely surprising questions.
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 31, 2008
We've now published a revised version of it as an annual report and it makes for good reading. At our Christmas party in Singapore a few weeks ago, Angelina put together a slide set about the various events over the last year here in Cognitive Edge. It gives some idea of the growth in our network and the increasing number of projects as SenseMaker™ matures as a product. You can also see the smiling (or less so in my case) faces of the team.
Beth Kanter
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The report begins with a simple, holistic definition of transparency and why it is important for funders to be transparent: “Transparency is, in a word, openness.
Mind Hacks
JULY 16, 2012
So I’m back from my time in Berlin at the BMW Guggenheim Lab. As announced previously , I was there to give a talk about how perception works, and how cities control our perception.
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